serious
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
serious/ˈsɪəriəs/
▶adjective
- 1 demanding or characterized by careful consideration or application.
■ solemn or thoughtful.
- 2 sincere and in earnest, rather than joking or half-hearted.
- 3 significant or worrying in terms of danger or risk: serious injury.
- 4 informal substantial in terms of size, number, or quality: serious money.
– derivatives
seriousness noun.
seriousness noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. serieux or late L. seriosus, from L. serius ‘earnest, serious’.
'serious' also found in these Oxford entries:
actual bodily harm
- acute
- aggravated
- anthrax
- appeal
- asseveration
- bad
- bathos
- blackfly
- Blighty
- blow
- bookable
- broadsheet
- buck
- bugger
- bust-up
- cardinal sin
- care
- cashier
- chip
- chloramphenicol
- coccidioidomycosis
- comic relief
- conflict
- contest
- cost
- crabgrass
- crime
- Crown court
- dead
- deadpan
- desperate
- devil
- dice
- dignity
- diphtheria
- dire
- dismiss
- dismissive
- done
- dreadful
- earnest
- ease
- eelworm
- emergency
- escalate
- extreme
- featherweight
- felony
- fiddle
